Demolition in Gwarinpa Estate: The Facts Based on Years of Official Records to Date 

The Management of Tulwu Integrated Ltd is appalled by a press release titled “Demolition at Gwarinpa Estate: The True Position”, published as advertorial in the Leadership newspaper’s edition of Friday, 19 December 2025, by the Management of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA). The Press Release merely represents a character defamation as our Managing Director, Hajia Sadiya has nothing to do with illegal encroachment or a pregnant woman attacking armed police officers as pictures and videos speak to the contrary.

While we refrained from being dragged into these allegations, which collides with years of FHA documents and correspondences that speak to our company’s possession of a 22,000sqm of a land as opposed to the claim of a 16,000sqm, but chose to put the records straight — and declare without any fear of contradiction that the FHA’s claims in the Press Release are diametrically opposite to the truth, just desperately to defend the illegal demolition and assault on our MD/CEO, Hajiya Sadiya by armed policemen in public glare.

Some of the baseless and defamatory allegations leveled against our MD/CEO by the FHA, include that, “The true position is that one Hajiya Sadiya through land grabbing had illegally encroached on the property of Federal Housing Authority situated along 5th Avenue, 52 road, Gwarinpa Estate Abuja, to the tune of about 6000sq meters. And that “Federal Housing Authority had initially allocated a parcel of land to one Savannah Suites Ltd measuring about 16,000sq meters. Savannah Suites in return assigned the same property to Tulwu Integrated Properties Ltd. However, Hajiya Sadiya through her Tulwu Integrated Properties Ltd encroached on an extra 6000sq meters, thereby claiming the land to be 22,000sq meters.” FHA as decades- long credible institution that WORKS WITH RECORDS CLEARLY KNOWS THAT THESE CLAIMS ARE UNTRUE.

There was also another claim in the Press Release that “Several attempts were made to resolve this issue amicably even when Savannah Suites that assigned the property to her clearly stated that what was transferred to her was 16,000, and not 22,000 sq meters. Rather, she resorted to threats, boasting of her connections, and at one meeting vowed to bring down the Managing Director and Chief Executive.” The truth of the matter is that there was no effort on the part of the Authority to resolve anything as there was no issue to resolve if records, documents, files and staff with institutional memories are anything to depend on in managing an entity established by law like the FHA. Our MD was only invited to the office to be harassed and boosted of nothing but spoke and stand on the truth.

If the above mentioned sources of institutional decision were consulted, the assertion that our company encroached on 6,000 square metres additional land would not have cropped up. We wish to put it on records and is there in all correspondonces that the FHA allocated the land to Savannah Suites & Restaurant Ltd. via a letter of allocation Ref. No. FHA/LEM/GWA. It was later assigned our firm Tulwu Integrated Ltd via a Consent Letter dated 13 March, 2013, with Ref. No. FHA/LEM/GWAII. And the FHA approved our application for Conversion of Use from Hotel

Development to Mixed Use Development, via a letter dated 27 July 2023, with Ref. No. FHA/LEM/GWA.Il.

We want to further state that the Allocation Letter signed by the then MD/CE, Dr Mustapha Zubairu, stated among others that, “The land has an area of 16,000 square metres approximately SUBJECT TO SURVEY.” It is expedient to state here that on the same allocation letter, it was written that “After survey 20,220.482sq metres.” This is the same allocation letter signed, stamped and given to the Savannah Suites & Restaurant Ltd. Equally, the FHA reviewed the size of the land to 22,000 square metres after further surveys. Following records and after the passage of several leadership of the Authority, in a letter of Change of Use approval signed by the then FHA MD/CE, the authority clearly stated that “The land has an area of 22,017.233 square meters.” Not only that, the sales agreement between our company and Savannah Suites clearly indicated that the land is 22,000 square metres. The barrage of authoritative letters and documents that came from the FHA made it crystal clear that no ENCROACHMENT on a “6,000sq metres” land is made by our company.

It is instructive to explain here that all letters of land allocations by the FHA comes along with this phrase “SUBJECT TO SURVEY.”

It is also important to state that this new move by the Authority suprised us as all official correspondences between the FHA and our Company since we acquired the land in 2013 to date, including billings and receipts for payment of services clearly indicated without ambiguity that the land in question is 22,000 square metres. Denial of any of our assertions by the FHA could FORCE our company to release all the correspondences from 2013 to 2023.

Our company, contrary to the claims never engages in anything to bend the rules. This can be verified from former Chief Executives and Leadership of the FHA right from the records of Late Arc Terver Gemade to date. It was when our firm got the wind of the current MD’s action on people’s legally owned properties, behaving as if no-records exist in the custody of the authority in the last 30 years.Our company chose to fence to secure its land, signaling to the authority to check its records, as we minimally have the Authority’s go ahead to ‘set-out’ on our conversion payment receipts.

In May 2025, we applied for Approval Plan from the FHA, submitting the Allocation Letter, TDP and Proposal Design, which was approved by all the relevant departments in the FHA after submission of architectural, structural, engineering, and electrical designs. But bill for the approval to start the project more than seven months after the application was REFUSED TO BE ISSUED to us to pay all applicable fees.

Two months after, instead of approving the bills for our company to start development of the land, a developer in the name Aiben Properties Limited came and curveout 6,000sqms from our land. That was when we approached the FHA management and nobody was ready to listen to our complaints. And without any notice or correspondence from the FHA, the developer backed by FHA officials and armed police men encroached on our land, destroyed part of our fences, and began development.

As a law-abiding citizens, our company rushed to court to stop the illegal encroachment. On July 1, 2025, the court in a suit number FCT/HC/B/CV/227/2025, ordered the parties to maintain status quo pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit. The case is coming up in January, 2026. If we boosted of any political connections as claimed, we might resort to it before rushing to the Court as we did. We are bold to say that our company and its management are law-abiding and respect due process in our dealings with all our customers and regulators including the FHA.

After the court order, our company rebuilt the parts of the fence demolished by the developer to prevent hoodlums from accessing it for smoking and toilet needs. Aside this our company didn’t erect any new structure apart from the fence and the gate house that were there for security to guard the land. Therefore, it’s not that our company continued the development of the property despite the ongoing court case.

Suddenly on Friday, 15 December 2025, armed police officers, accompanied by some staff of the FHA, came to the site in two Coaster buses, demolished the fence of the property and physically assaulted Hajiya Sadiya who is pregnant, dragging her on the ground when she attempted to stop them from demolishing the property. For the records, our MD/CEO went to the site after she was informed of the arrival of the two busloads of armed policemen. Her husband came to her rescue and he tried to stop them but was roughly arrested and bundled into a car and taken to the Gwarinpa Police Station. The following Monday, 15 December 2025, a team of armed policemen and bulldozers came to the site and demolished all the fence. To avoid, another confrontation particularly with our MD/CEO nursing the injuries of the previous assault, our company stayed back and allowed them to demolish all the fence and the gate house.

Two days later, Aiben, the developer deployed some people, engineers and machineries to the site in the middle of the night. He removed our company container and started digging. As a law-abiding company, we informed the police and went to court seeking another restraining injunctions. The FHA was duly served the court process. We took time to provide this insight to the public certainly not to join issues with the FHA but to correct the statement it made last week.

It is against this backdrop that Tulwu Integrated Ltd emphasizes its core principles of following due process in its business practices. However, our company wants to reiterate that it shall deploy its energy to ensure that its rights are not trampled upon by anyone irrespective of his current position or political connections.

SIGNED

Management

Tulwu Integrated Ltd

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